Two of the Selati male lions roaring to assert their dominance over the African bush.Filmed in the Sabi Sand Wildtuin, Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa A roar is a deep, bellowing outburst ...

Are South Africa’s captive lions inbred? Are South Africa’s captive lions inbred? Inside the race to save West Africa’s endangered lions Inside the race to save West Africa’s endangered ...

Pairing pair of lions (Selati Male/Ximhungwe Lioness) mate in the short grass in the African sunlight.Lions will mate on average every 20 mins over 4 - 5 days. Pairing occurs every couple of weeks ...

The fate of over 8,000 captive lions hangs in the balance as the government moves to shut down the commercial lion industry.

With around 23,000 African lions left in the wild, they’re now officially classified as ‘vulnerable’. 'I grew up just 5km outside Marsabit National Park in rural northern Kenya, and my early memories ...

This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lions are complicated creatures, magnificent at a distance yet fearsomely inconvenient to the rural peoples whose fate ...

And just 23,000 African lions roam the land between the southern edge of the Sahara and northern South Africa. The total number of wild lions worldwide has dropped by more than 40 percent in the ...

The African lion population has plummeted by over 40% over the last three generations. 9. There may be as few as 20,000 lions left in the wild The African lion population has undergone ...

The study first identified and mapped wild African lion populations, building on extensive lion monitoring. The researchers then created two general categories of population fragility, being ...